Jervanlx Abbey (pronounced Jarvis), a ruined Cistercian abbey of Yorkshire, 13½ miles NW. of Ripon. It was built in 1156 by monks from the Yorkshire monastery of Byland, and was dismantled in 1539, its last and twenty-third abbot having been hanged two years before for his share in the Pilgrimage of Grace. Its scanty ruins were excavated in 1803 by the Earl of Ailesbury.
Jervanlx Abbey
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 6: Humber to Malta
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